Seinabo Sey

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

Since I'm not good at anything else, I hope I can keep singing for a long time.

I had a hard time when I came back to Sweden and started school, because I looked different. And we moved to a really small town on the west coast of Sweden, and there were no brown people around. It didn't really get any better until I started music school at about 10 years old.

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.